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Materiality V2
21 August 2026 – 30 June 2027
Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town
Beyond oil and canvas lies Matereality V2, a major ten-month exhibition featuring 70 creators and over 100 works across 5 rooms. Experience how everyday and industrial materials are transformed into profound statements on identity, memory, and culture.
Everard Read at RMB Latitudes 2026
22 – 24 May 2026
Group Exhibition at Latitudes Art Fair, Johannesburg
At this year’s RMB Latitudes Art Fair, Everard Read presents a considered dual-focus exhibition that reflects both our commitment to sustained artistic practices as well as our investment in cultivating new generations of collectors.
Words, Words, Words
18 March – 2 May 2026
Group exhibition at Everard Read Johannesburg
Bringing together artists exploring language and text as material. Across painting, print and sculpture, words are transformed to reveal their power to clarify, obscure or provoke. The exhibition invites viewers to reconsider how words generate meaning and images.
Treading Lightly
18 October – 9 November 2026
Solo Exhibition at Everard Read Franschhoek
Treading Lightly is an exhibition which explores more attentive ways of living with memory: respecting fragile objects, acknowledging multiple narratives, and preserving stories not as fixed monuments but as living inheritances.
Motherhood: Paradox and Duality
30 April 2025 – 23 February 2026
Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town
Bringing together over 70 artists across diverse media and time periods in South Africa to explore the complexities and contradictions of mothering. This exhibition challenges, redefines, and expands our understanding of motherhood in a changing world.
In Celebration of Spring
31 August – 5 October 2025
A group exhibition curated by Ilse Schermers at IS Art Gallery Blaauwklippen, Stellenbosch.
This is a mixed-media group exhibition featuring works by various local artists with a focus on the colours, growth, and the vibrant energy of spring.
Diepe Grond
1 April – 6 April 2025
Group exhibition curated by Liza Grobler
KKNK – Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees 2025
Artworks flow from the Prince Vintcent building into Baron van Reede St in Oudtshoorn, and connect with the textures and colours found in the veld just outside of town. Participating artists were from across South Africa.
If You Look Hard Enough You Can See Our Future
20 February – 20 June 2025
Nandos Group Exhibition: Newcomb Art Museum, New Orleans, USA
This exhibit at the Newcomb Art Museum features paintings, works on paper, sculptures, and photography from the Nando collection created in South Africa between 1948 and 2020.
Inner Sanctum
13 November – 20 December 2024
Inner Sanctum at the Everard Read Gallery in Johannesburg brings together 50 local artists, each exploring the role their studio plays in their creative practice. This exhibition delves into the diverse ways studios shape and reflect an artist’s work, highlighting how no two creative spaces are the same.
Alchemy
5 September – 31 October 2024
HUB Gallery presents Alchemy, a collection of mosaic, bead and embroidered artworks, produced in collaboration with fine artists and various studios, namely HUB Mosaic Studios, Qaqambile Bead Studio and Keiskamma Arts Project.
Winter | A Group Show
19 July – 31 August
Everard Read Franschhoek is proud to present a new group exhibition celebrating Winter in the Cape Winelands. This collection features some of South Africa’s finest contemporary artists.
Persistence of Memory
3 June – 13 September 2024
Ceramic exhibition, Old Wine Cellar, Spier Wine Farm, Stellenbosch
A new edition of an annual ceramics exhibition, which opens at Spier on 3 June 2024, is an exploration of time, texture and memory – both the personal and the collective.
After the Fire
7 March – 28 April 2024
Solo exhibition at Sisonke Gallery at the Cape Heritage Hotel
In 2020 there was a devastating fire at a home in the winelands. Salvaged shards were incorporated into artworks to remind us of the impermanence of precious things.
In Search of the Birds of the Sea
9 November 2023 – 31 January 2024
Collaboration between Keiskamma Art Project and artists, facilitated by Spier Arts Trust. This is a collaboration between artists and embroiderers to co-create wholly unique tapestries, demonstrating the power of community, knowledge-sharing, culture and heritage.
Bowl: Function to Fantasy
11 November – 9 December 2023
The CUBE, Rust-en-Vrede Gallery, Durbanville. Former students of Ralph Johnson were invited to create, reshape and reimagine bowls in a variety of ways.
Art Joburg 2023
7 – 10 September 2023
With the Everard Read and CIRCA Galleries, Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg
If You Look Hard Enough You Can See Our Future
20 April – 21 October 2023
Nandos, Group Exhibition: African American Museum, Dallas, Texas, USA
This exhibition by more than 60 artists showcases the diversity, creativity and innovation of the African diaspora.
Solo Studios 2023
17 – 20 August 2023
Solo show at the annual Solo Studios in Riebeek Valley where artists open their studios for the public.